1. The Creative Curriculum for Preschool
The Creative Curriculum for Preschool is a comprehensive, research-based curriculum designed to provide a developmentally appropriate, content-rich program for children with diverse backgrounds and skill levels.

2. About the Curriculum
The curriculum reinforces the  belief that the best way to help children succeed is to teach them to be creative, confident thinkers. That means offering them opportunities for hands-on exploration and discovery that help build lifelong critical thinking skills and foster confidence. The Creative Curriculum® for Preschool provides  encouragement and support for every type of learner and address all the important areas of learning.

3. What are The Creative Curriculum® for Preschool Objectives for Development & Learning?
There are 38 research-based objectives that are the heart of the curriculum. They include predictors of school success, and are aligned with state early learning guidelines and Early Learning Framework. The objectives cover 10 areas of development and learning, including broad developmental areas, content areas, and English language acquisition. 

4. Social Emotional 1. Regulates own emotions and behaviors
   a. Manages feelings
   b. Follows limits and expectations
   c. Takes care of own needs appropriately
2. Establishes and sustains positive relationships
   a. Forms relationships with adults
   b. Responds to emotional cues
   c. Interacts with peers
   d. Makes friends
3. Participates cooperatively and constructively 
in group situations
   a. Balances needs and rights of self and others
   b. Solves social problems

5. Physical 4. Demonstrates traveling skills
5. Demonstrates balancing skills
6. Demonstrates gross-motor manipulative skills
7. Demonstrates fine-motor strength and 
coordination
a. Uses fingers and hands
b. Uses writing and drawing tools

6. Language 8. Listens to and understands increasingly complex language
   a. Comprehends language
   b. Follows directions
 9. Uses language to express thoughts and needs
   a. Uses an expanding expressive vocabulary
   b. Speaks clearly
   c. Uses conventional grammar
   d. Tells about another time or place
10. Uses appropriate conversational and other 
communication skills
   a. Engages in conversations
   b. Uses social rules of language

7. Cognitive 11. Demonstrates positive approaches to learning
   a. Attends and engages
   b. Persists
   c. Solves problems
   d. Shows curiosity and motivation
   e. Shows flexibility and inventiveness in thinking
12. Remembers and connects experiences
   a. Recognizes and recalls
   b. Makes connections
13. Uses classification skills
14. Uses symbols and images to represent 
something not present
   a. Thinks symbolically
   b. Engages in sociodramatic play

8. Literacy 15. Demonstrates phonological awareness
   a. Notices and discriminates rhyme
   b. Notices and discriminates alliteration
   c. Notices and discriminates smaller and smaller units of sound
16. Demonstrates knowledge of the alphabet
   a. Identifies and names letters
   b. Uses letter–sound knowledge
17. Demonstrates knowledge of print and its uses
   a. Uses and appreciates books
   b. Uses print concepts
18. Comprehends and responds to books and other texts
a. Interacts during read-alouds and book conversations
   b. Uses emergent reading skills
   c. Retells stories
19. Demonstrates emergent writing skills
   a. Writes name
   b. Writes to convey meaning

9. Mathematics 20. Uses number concepts and operations a. Counts
   b. Quantifies
   c. Connects numerals with their quantities
21. Explores and describes spatial relationships 
    and shapes
   a. Understands spatial relationships
   b. Understands shapes
22. Compares and measures
23. Demonstrates knowledge of patterns

10. Science and Technology
24. Uses scientific inquiry skills
25. Demonstrates knowledge of the characteristics of living things
26. Demonstrates knowledge of the physical 
 properties of objects and materials
27. Demonstrates knowledge of Earth’s environment
28. Uses tools and other technology to perform tasks

11. Social Studies 29. Demonstrates knowledge about self
30. Shows basic understanding of people and how they live
31. Explores change related to familiar peopleor places
32. Demonstrates simple geographic knowledge

12. The Arts 33. Explores the visual arts
34. Explores musical concepts and expression
35. Explores dance and movement concepts
36. Explores drama through actions and language

13. English Language Acquisition
37. Demonstrates progress in listening to and understanding English
38. Demonstrates progress in speaking English

14. What we are learning NOW:
Themes: Back To School, Me, Myself and I, Family.
Classroom routines and expectations
Social/Emotional Skills during work and play
Behavior Management
Classroom jobs and responsibilities
Recognizing their names.
Spelling their names
Writing names
Coloring 
Writing
Holding writing instruments
Cutting, hand positions on scissors and holding hand.
Counting up to at least 30
Calendar, Months of the Year
Days of the week
Weather & Graphing

15. What we are learning NOW: (Cont.)
Shapes
Center materials and uses
Making Choices
Explorations
Dramatic Play/ Pretend
Games and Puzzles
Fine Motor Control
And SO MUCH MORE!! 
Positional words
Vocabulary
Recognizing Letters and their sounds
Introducing blending sounds to make words
Tracking words in sentences/ Pre reading skills
Left to right direction during reading
Left and Right direction in space

16. Differentiated Instruction (D.I.)
Learning is NOT one size fits all!
I will embrace and nurture our differences 
Children learn differently and at their own 
pace 
Responsive/flexible teaching: I will modify my teaching instead of expecting students 
to modify their learning 
I have created learning centers which take into account different learning styles
   I use a multi-sensory approach to teaching. 
   The children are offered auditory, visual, tactile and kinesthetic materials & methods of learning.